Sylvie Pelissier
@syl-p.bsky.social
English to French senior legal translator #xl8
Reliable French business translation services
Member of the French Society of Translators
Reliable French business translation services
Member of the French Society of Translators
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Les querelles d’orthographe… au 16ème siècle !
Les querelles ortograffiques ne datent pas d’hier. Petit tour d’horizon, avec Ronsard, Du Bellay et Montaigne, de trois positions différentes au 16ème, (grâce à « Ecrire le français », ouvrage de la linguiste Gabriella Parussa à Actes Sud) ⬇️
Les querelles ortograffiques ne datent pas d’hier. Petit tour d’horizon, avec Ronsard, Du Bellay et Montaigne, de trois positions différentes au 16ème, (grâce à « Ecrire le français », ouvrage de la linguiste Gabriella Parussa à Actes Sud) ⬇️
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Les querelles d’orthographe… au 16ème siècle !
Les querelles ortograffiques ne datent pas d’hier. Petit tour d’horizon, avec Ronsard, Du Bellay et Montaigne, de trois positions différentes au 16ème, (grâce à « Ecrire le français », ouvrage de la linguiste Gabriella Parussa à Actes Sud) ⬇️
Les querelles ortograffiques ne datent pas d’hier. Petit tour d’horizon, avec Ronsard, Du Bellay et Montaigne, de trois positions différentes au 16ème, (grâce à « Ecrire le français », ouvrage de la linguiste Gabriella Parussa à Actes Sud) ⬇️
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Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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From Dôl y Tylwyth Teg (Fairies’ Meadow) in Aberfan to Ffynnon Glog (Rock Well) in Gwynedd, Welsh placenames — some steeped in myth, others rooted in everyday history — are being submitted to a new project to preserve the stories written into the landscape.
🔗 tinyurl.com/m6bmrkxv
TLDR 👇
#langsky
🔗 tinyurl.com/m6bmrkxv
TLDR 👇
#langsky
People submit Welsh placenames to protect linguistic heritage
Entries include Welsh language names for fields and hills in move to ensure preservation of stories and legends
tinyurl.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
From Dôl y Tylwyth Teg (Fairies’ Meadow) in Aberfan to Ffynnon Glog (Rock Well) in Gwynedd, Welsh placenames — some steeped in myth, others rooted in everyday history — are being submitted to a new project to preserve the stories written into the landscape.
🔗 tinyurl.com/m6bmrkxv
TLDR 👇
#langsky
🔗 tinyurl.com/m6bmrkxv
TLDR 👇
#langsky
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And if you want to check out more of the details behind this for yourself, please see this stellar work by the @justsecurity.org team at: www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...
October 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
And if you want to check out more of the details behind this for yourself, please see this stellar work by the @justsecurity.org team at: www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...
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"Let's rewrite the entire operating system around AI."
As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity
Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.
trib.al
October 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
"Let's rewrite the entire operating system around AI."
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The new issue of #Translatio is now available online in #English, #Spanish and #French, a special issue about the FIT Statutory Congress and the XXIII FIT World Congress celebrated last month in #Geneva.
EN: en.translatio.fit-ift.org
ES: es.translatio.fit-ift.org
FR: fr.translatio.fit-ift.org
EN: en.translatio.fit-ift.org
ES: es.translatio.fit-ift.org
FR: fr.translatio.fit-ift.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The new issue of #Translatio is now available online in #English, #Spanish and #French, a special issue about the FIT Statutory Congress and the XXIII FIT World Congress celebrated last month in #Geneva.
EN: en.translatio.fit-ift.org
ES: es.translatio.fit-ift.org
FR: fr.translatio.fit-ift.org
EN: en.translatio.fit-ift.org
ES: es.translatio.fit-ift.org
FR: fr.translatio.fit-ift.org
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In 2022, data centres consumed 460 TWh of electricity – as much as France – and could double by 2026.
Google alone used over 21 million cubic meters of water in the same year.
At #UNCTAD16, leaders & experts will work to shape a sustainable digital future.
▶️ ow.ly/PlG850X6LAg
▶️ ow.ly/HC7p50X6LAj
Google alone used over 21 million cubic meters of water in the same year.
At #UNCTAD16, leaders & experts will work to shape a sustainable digital future.
▶️ ow.ly/PlG850X6LAg
▶️ ow.ly/HC7p50X6LAj
October 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In 2022, data centres consumed 460 TWh of electricity – as much as France – and could double by 2026.
Google alone used over 21 million cubic meters of water in the same year.
At #UNCTAD16, leaders & experts will work to shape a sustainable digital future.
▶️ ow.ly/PlG850X6LAg
▶️ ow.ly/HC7p50X6LAj
Google alone used over 21 million cubic meters of water in the same year.
At #UNCTAD16, leaders & experts will work to shape a sustainable digital future.
▶️ ow.ly/PlG850X6LAg
▶️ ow.ly/HC7p50X6LAj
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🤖 How #AI #translation use on Wikipedia has sent vulnerable #languages like Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Hawaiian, Igbo and Fulfulde into a doom spiral
technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
by @jacobjudah.bsky.social
technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
by @jacobjudah.bsky.social
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
technologyreview.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
🤖 How #AI #translation use on Wikipedia has sent vulnerable #languages like Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Hawaiian, Igbo and Fulfulde into a doom spiral
technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
by @jacobjudah.bsky.social
technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
by @jacobjudah.bsky.social
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Trois interventions à Caen cette semaine!
-Jeudi 16 octobre à l'Université "Langue et style dans les récits de transfuge de classe" (université)
-Vendredi 17 octobre,une présentation de "Trahir et venger" (bibli Tocqueville)
-Samedi 18 octobre, une "grande dicterie" avec Christophe Benzitoun (idem)
-Jeudi 16 octobre à l'Université "Langue et style dans les récits de transfuge de classe" (université)
-Vendredi 17 octobre,une présentation de "Trahir et venger" (bibli Tocqueville)
-Samedi 18 octobre, une "grande dicterie" avec Christophe Benzitoun (idem)
Langue et style dans les récits de transfuge de classe. Ambition sociolinguistique et auto-illusion littéraire · CRISCO - Centre de recherches inter-langues sur la signification en contexte - UR 4255
Conférence de Laélia Véron, maîtresse de conférences à l'université d'Orléans.
crisco.unicaen.fr
October 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Trois interventions à Caen cette semaine!
-Jeudi 16 octobre à l'Université "Langue et style dans les récits de transfuge de classe" (université)
-Vendredi 17 octobre,une présentation de "Trahir et venger" (bibli Tocqueville)
-Samedi 18 octobre, une "grande dicterie" avec Christophe Benzitoun (idem)
-Jeudi 16 octobre à l'Université "Langue et style dans les récits de transfuge de classe" (université)
-Vendredi 17 octobre,une présentation de "Trahir et venger" (bibli Tocqueville)
-Samedi 18 octobre, une "grande dicterie" avec Christophe Benzitoun (idem)
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🍿 With the biggest technology companies based in the US, a cultural blind spot has emerged where we often assume that the English internet is representative of the rest of the world
bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
How language is hiding the real internet from you
Most of the internet is out of your reach, but the barrier isn't just algorithms. In another language, the same platforms turn into whole other worlds.
bbc.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🍿 With the biggest technology companies based in the US, a cultural blind spot has emerged where we often assume that the English internet is representative of the rest of the world
bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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Climate change: ally or foe for endangered languages? Audrius Sabūnas on Oceania case studies - Kiribati, islands/coasts, sea-level rise and storms impacting small-speaker communities.
Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com
#PolyglotConference #LangSky
Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com
#PolyglotConference #LangSky
October 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Climate change: ally or foe for endangered languages? Audrius Sabūnas on Oceania case studies - Kiribati, islands/coasts, sea-level rise and storms impacting small-speaker communities.
Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com
#PolyglotConference #LangSky
Tickets: PCTaipei.eventbrite.com
#PolyglotConference #LangSky
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"AI is fixing the typos but creating the timebombs."
Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows
AI has proven repeatedly to have issues with accuracy — and using it as a coding assistant creates more security problems, too.
trib.al
September 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
"AI is fixing the typos but creating the timebombs."
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📢 CPD: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses?
Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn.
Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️
itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...
Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn.
Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️
itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...
Autumn Workshop 2025 - ITI ScotNet
11/10/2025 @ 09:30 - 13:00 - ITI Scottish Network invites you to its autumn workshop: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses? with LYNDA HEPBURN To be held at The Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh o...
itiscotland.org.uk
September 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM
📢 CPD: Translating botany: not all a bed of roses?
Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn.
Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️
itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...
Join us in Edinburgh on 11/10/25 for what promises to be a fascinating autumn workshop focusing on plants and translation, run by our very own Lynda Hepburn.
Languages, plant talk and networking included. ☺️
itiscotland.org.uk/events/autum...
Teaching sign language to babies in nurseries. Babies are able to communicate with their hands much earlier than with words. French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) #signlanguage
September 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Teaching sign language to babies in nurseries. Babies are able to communicate with their hands much earlier than with words. French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) #signlanguage
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Best seller in China that I like the look of. She'll Split This Mountain by Bing He Zhai, with illustrations from Qun Bai, a book of feminist retellings of old myths, a few western ones in there, many are traditional, such as fox demons, cave of silken web and moon spirits. #books
September 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Best seller in China that I like the look of. She'll Split This Mountain by Bing He Zhai, with illustrations from Qun Bai, a book of feminist retellings of old myths, a few western ones in there, many are traditional, such as fox demons, cave of silken web and moon spirits. #books
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The same goes for translation and localization.
You don't get experienced translators if you don't have entry-level translators.
I worry for what our industry will look like 10, 20 years down the line, as the veterans begin to retire.
You don't get experienced translators if you don't have entry-level translators.
I worry for what our industry will look like 10, 20 years down the line, as the veterans begin to retire.
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
September 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The same goes for translation and localization.
You don't get experienced translators if you don't have entry-level translators.
I worry for what our industry will look like 10, 20 years down the line, as the veterans begin to retire.
You don't get experienced translators if you don't have entry-level translators.
I worry for what our industry will look like 10, 20 years down the line, as the veterans begin to retire.
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Announcing the Center for the Art of Translation's DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Registration open now for our 12-5 pm panels & tickets available for Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura's 6 pm keynote.
Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio...
Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio...
August 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Announcing the Center for the Art of Translation's DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Registration open now for our 12-5 pm panels & tickets available for Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura's 6 pm keynote.
Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio...
Full announcement ➡️ mailchi.mp/catranslatio...
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Happy #WomeninTranslationMonth! Celebrate with us by picking reads from our 2025 reading list, which features works—both written and translated by women—published by lit mags and indie presses:
A Reading List for Women in Translation Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the…
www.clmp.org
August 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Happy #WomeninTranslationMonth! Celebrate with us by picking reads from our 2025 reading list, which features works—both written and translated by women—published by lit mags and indie presses:
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We’re delighted to announce that 14 titles from 10 publishers, 13 languages and 11 regions have won #PENTranslates awards – marking 400 books now supported through our programme.
www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...
www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...
PEN Translates winners announced - News & Events - English PEN
Awarding 14 titles from 10 publishers, 13 languages and 11 regions.
www.englishpen.org
July 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Emojipedia Archives Now Fully Available In 19 Languages
blog.emojipedia.org/emojipedia-a...
#emoji #communication #langsky
blog.emojipedia.org/emojipedia-a...
#emoji #communication #langsky
Emojipedia Archives Now Fully Available In 19 Languages
A few years ago, Emojipedia began the process of translating our site. Today, on the twelfth annual World Emoji Day, that project is officially complete. All emoji entries and emoji information pages ...
blog.emojipedia.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Emojipedia Archives Now Fully Available In 19 Languages
blog.emojipedia.org/emojipedia-a...
#emoji #communication #langsky
blog.emojipedia.org/emojipedia-a...
#emoji #communication #langsky
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Book on “The Quest for #AI Sovereignty, Transparency and Accountability” cyberbrics.info/pre-print-th...
#IGF2025
@fgvoficial.bsky.social cts.fgv.br @intgovforum.bsky.social
#IGF2025
@fgvoficial.bsky.social cts.fgv.br @intgovforum.bsky.social
The Quest for AI Sovereignty, Transparency and Accountability
This volume is the result of a participatory process developed by the Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance (DAIG) Coalition of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF). An early ve…
cyberbrics.info
June 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Book on “The Quest for #AI Sovereignty, Transparency and Accountability” cyberbrics.info/pre-print-th...
#IGF2025
@fgvoficial.bsky.social cts.fgv.br @intgovforum.bsky.social
#IGF2025
@fgvoficial.bsky.social cts.fgv.br @intgovforum.bsky.social
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Love this because it exposes the myth or misunderstanding that babies are passive sponges as they're acquiring languages.
"… children acquire language through an active, ever-changing developmental process driven by their growing social, cognitive, and motor skills…"
Using all 5 senses!
#LangSky
"… children acquire language through an active, ever-changing developmental process driven by their growing social, cognitive, and motor skills…"
Using all 5 senses!
#LangSky
Brains over bots: why toddlers still beat AI at learning language
Even the smartest machines can’t match young minds at language learning. Researchers share new findings on how children stay ahead of AI - and why it matters.
If a human learned langua...
www.eurekalert.org
June 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Love this because it exposes the myth or misunderstanding that babies are passive sponges as they're acquiring languages.
"… children acquire language through an active, ever-changing developmental process driven by their growing social, cognitive, and motor skills…"
Using all 5 senses!
#LangSky
"… children acquire language through an active, ever-changing developmental process driven by their growing social, cognitive, and motor skills…"
Using all 5 senses!
#LangSky
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NYC is a linguistic powerhouse. With 700+ languages spoken across its boroughs, it’s the most linguistically diverse city in history & organisations (like the Endangered Language Alliance) collaborate with speakers to document, & preserve them.
🔗 www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...
#langsky
🔗 www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...
#langsky
The city of 700 languages
New York is the most linguistically diverse city on the planet. Can it stay that way?
www.nationalgeographic.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
NYC is a linguistic powerhouse. With 700+ languages spoken across its boroughs, it’s the most linguistically diverse city in history & organisations (like the Endangered Language Alliance) collaborate with speakers to document, & preserve them.
🔗 www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...
#langsky
🔗 www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/arti...
#langsky
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"everyone participating in generative AI is polluting the data supply for everyone"
The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests
The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests
Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel
Feature For artificial intelligence researchers, the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, changed the world in a way similar to the detonation of the first atomic bomb.…
dlvr.it
June 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"everyone participating in generative AI is polluting the data supply for everyone"